Publication Day of New Novel and Some Recent Reads
The fifth book in my John Ross Boomer Lit series, Reunion of Familiar Strangers, hits the online bookstores today.
The e-version of the novel has been available on preorder from Amazon since Aug. 27. It should now be in both e-book and print if everything goes as planned from Wings ePress. And with the book being printed and distributed by Lightning Source, a division of Ingram, it is available to bookstores, libraries, and other places that sell and purchase books.
Noel Prince seeks answers to an array of problems in this coming-of-age novel, the second book in Chris Boucher’s “Pivot” series for young adults. The story centers on his later father’s actions while serving in Afghanistan and how it affects the family. Noel’s tenacity drops him in the middle of an event that proves enlightening in his search for the truth. Basketball plays a role in this story about family.
Three 66-year-old men get together for a mini-reunion on Cape Code. They are longtime friends but have traveled different paths through the years. The one thing they have in common is a woman who disappeared from their lives. Richard Russo provides adequate backstory in this novel about how lives intersect over the course of time. Russo is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls.